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[Guide] Shen the Ninja Tank

There are two main ways to play Shen.
Jungle Shen and Lane Shen in this guide I'll show you how to play both play styles.

Patch Notes
Release Notes v1.0.0.104 : No changes made to Shen or any that affect Shen.

Introduction
Shen is a great tank that can fill many roles in a team. He can Jungle and tank and also has great lane dominance. Your main role when play Shen is to save as many allies as you can. This guide will not show you how to play AP Shen or DPS Shen.

a. Start with a Cloth armor and either 5 or 2 health potions and a ward.
Normally i would go for 5 health potions, but if there is a enemy jungler like WarWick, who can get dragon at level 4 without madreds, i usually get 2 health potions and a ward.

b. At the this stage either go build your cloth armor into a heart of gold,
if you have the gold, or just buy boots and some more health potions
and wards.
c. If you haven't already build heart of gold and start building Aegis.
d. Finish Aegis and Mercury Treads.
e. If the team is magic heavy (buy Force of Nature)
If the team is ad heavy finish Randuins Omen.
If their super AD like all AD characters then get Thornmail.
f. At this point if your still feeling not tanky enough, build Sunfire (if AD is the problem) or Force of Nature (if AP is the problem) and if you already have Force of Nature you should probably buy a health item, such as Sunfire cape or Frozen Mallet. Maybe get a Guardian Angel if you feel very tanky already.

Overall Gameplay
As Shen your main goal is to save your carry. That does not mean if your twitch
is lvl 6 and the enemies are lvl 15 to save your twitch. Save whoever is carrying the team that could be Eve with 20 stacks.

A lot of people don't know this, but you can cancel your ult and the person will still get the shield. So a lot of times i will ultimate my carry in a team fight and if hes close '
i'll just cancel out of it and taunt the people attacking him.

Feint should be used after a taunt. Feint can also be used to save you from dots such as ignite and morde's ultimate.

Vorpal blade should almost never be used in a team fight. It just wastes too much energy to be worth it.

Try to taunt the person most dangerous on the enemy team not as many people as possible.
For example if they have twitch (who is far from his team, but close enough to shoot your allies) you should taunt him (one person) over taunting Sona, Taric, Janna ( 3 people).

Use your ultimate to save any ally in need.

Try to use your dash to escape the initial burst.

Shadow dash can force stealth characters out of stealth if you manage to taunt them.

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What do you have against Warmogs? The cost? Actually, what do you have against the high HP items in general like Leviathan as well? Don't they help his passive and make Shen more of a viable threat? Otherwise, you only have your Ult and Taunt to help a team fight if you can't dish out enough damage to make them want to hit you.